Errand Monday

Did some shopping, had a surprise dinner with the neighbors, and worked on GameAxis stuff.

Return Of The Hardware

After a few days of believing that the disconnection from the wireless network was the result of interference from other networks in the area, we may have stumbled on the culprit; it’s the wireless router itself, not a problem with interference.

We lost the network connection for a few hours and that was motivation to get a little more active. We got a bit curious today and spent the evening running some tests. We plugged this ol’ laptop directly into the modem when we lost wireless connection Yet Again. Plugged directly into the modem, the laptop was fine and was happily surfing and streaming video away. Then we tried plugging the laptop by cable into the wireless router and at first, it seemed okay, reinforcing our initial belief that it was interference. However, when the network came back up, I went over to the Wife’s PC to monitor the situation, the signal dropped inevitably and at first the direct cable connection for the laptop was fine. Then it lost hook up to the internet as well.

At this point, the Wife actually looked at the router itself and noticed that it’s power light was just off, and/or fluctuating on and off wildly before stabilizing back to “On.” A little more observation revealed that the router itself is prone to just shutting itself off for a few a seconds at time or sometimes longer. Of course, it should not be doing this, so my guess is we’ve either got a wonky power cable with some bad wiring that occasionally disrupts the electricity, or else it’s a problem within the router itself.

Either way, it looks like we’re going to have to tromp on down to Best Buy and get a replacement for this thing. At least the mystery is solved. And if we get a replacement and the connection STILL keeps dropping out, we’re definitely calling it quits and just going back to a cable network.

And in other news I finally got approved for my first ever credit card today. I can now run myself into the ground with debt based on overzealous Amazon and Electronic Boutique online orders. GO BANKRUPTCY!

Toronto Day Two

Not much was accomplished due to the fact that I have an insufficient number of valid pieces of government approved ID, so that kind of squelched the whole “Hey, let’s open a bank account” idea I was nursing. But a little bit of shopping was done and it looks like the next few days may hold some scoutin’ out of apartments and/or art stores.

And I totally need to sleep right now…

The Last Night Sort Of

Since the plane leaves on Thursday at 6 am, but as far as I’m concerned, that’s Wednesday night sinct I won’t have slept in the meantime. Today was another goodbye dinner. This time with the Wife’s aunt. Also said goodbye to another friend and gave her Stuff and Money which is always good to get for free.

Y’know, maybe at some point I should seriously consider packing…

The Boring Way

And how do you ring in 2007 when one part of the couple is a talented neurotic artist and the other is a snarky, overly verbose writer, both about to start on a new chapter in life together?

You make lots of coffee and itemize your books, CDs, DVDs, comics and games on Microsoft Excel so that the movers will have a complete list of insurable items when they come to take your stuff away (and hopefully not lose or break any of the stuff) on the 4th of January.

Gee willikers, we’re excitin’ folks, yeah?

Goofing Off

Guitar Hero 2, Second Life, the movie Dodgeball and some Walking With Dinosaurs goodness. Pretty much in that order. Oh and there was a script I should have been working on today, but I’ll leave that for tomorrow.

No Amusing Post Today

I just realized I have three scripts and an episodic synopsis to write…

I Repeat

Final Fantasy XII is freakin’ HUGE.

Over 150 hours on that bastard and still not done…

Yet Another Final Fantasy XII Day

Meaning that noting of consequence happened.

Some Minor Script Writing

And then… it’s right back to Final Fantasy XII.

This game is HUGE…